Spiritual Intelligence in Relation to Socio-Economic Status of Postgraduate Students                                                    

Mr. Jan Jahanger,  Manzoor Ahmad Parray and Dr. Aneet Kumar                              

ABSTRACT

The present research was conducted on post-graduate students to study the differences in spiritual intelligence of post-graduate students having different levels of Socio-economic status and to analyze the relationship of spiritual intelligence with socio-economic status of post-graduate students. For the purpose a sample of 302 (76 as High Socio Economic Status group, 148 as Average Socio Economic Status group and 78 as Low Socio Economic Status group) post-graduate students was collected from the university of Kashmir and its affiliated colleges by using probability sampling techniques. The tools used for data collection were Socio-economic status scale developed by Kallia and Sahu (2012) and Spiritual intelligence scale developed by Mishra (2014). Findings of the study revealed that socio-economic status is significant predictor of spiritual intelligence and there is significant positive correlation between spiritual intelligence and socio-economic status of postgraduate students.

Keywords: Spiritual Intelligence, Post-Graduate Students, Socio-Economic Status (SES).